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08 Nov, 2025
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Apprentice jockey charged in armed robbery of Portmore business
The police have have charged a 21-year-old apprentice jockey in connection with the armed robbery of a business establishment in Newlands, Portmore, last month. He is Delroy Eric Walker, a…
08 Nov, 2025
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MoBay hotel opens media base in MoBay to support journalists after Hurricane Melissa
The S Hotel in Montego Bay has converted its entertainment lounge into a media base to assist journalists in western Jamaica struggling with communication and connectivity issues following the passage…
08 Nov, 2025
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Chasm of star-spangled bewilderment
THE EDITOR, Madam: Whether we like it or not, Washington, DC, is the epicentre of politics for the rest of the world, with so much hypocrisy, utter confusion and vainglorious rhetoric emanating from…
08 Nov, 2025
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Letter of the Day | Build trust through real-time audit of post-Melissa expenditure
THE EDITOR, Madam: Since the passage of Hurricane Melissa, there have been public concerns about accountability in the spending of recovery funds. The Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal recalls how,…
08 Nov, 2025
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A love letter to Jamaica
THE EDITOR, Madam: My beloved island home has gone through a lot over centuries, but Hurricane Melissa was more than we could have bargained for. We faced that monster together and we have survived.…
08 Nov, 2025
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A requiem for historic buildings in Black River
I have always been interested in the history of the parish of St Elizabeth, which was the parish of my mother. Her family roots run deep in the parish. Her grandmother, Adelaide Shaw, was born in Ivor…
08 Nov, 2025
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Stephen Vasciannie | Shiprider agreement should safeguard Jamaica’s national self-respect
Some of the main aspects of Jamaica’s relationship with the United States of America within the Caribbean Sea are governed by the Agreement Concerning Cooperation in Suppressing Illicit Maritime Drug…
08 Nov, 2025
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Orville Taylor | John Crows to the rescue
Sunday is a day of rest for them, because the popular Jamaican folk song reports; our turkey vultures, “John Crow, say him no wuk pon Sunday.” Her logic might sound as if sucked into the eye of…
08 Nov, 2025
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Garth Rattray | What if Hurricane Melissa landed in Kingston?
Category 5 hurricane Melissa was described as “catastrophic” as it approached our shores, and then rapidly transformed from a tropical storm into a monstrous hurricane packing wind gusts of up to…